waldwick-web20 - Session 2

Waldwick Academy: Free Educational Web 2.0 Tools

Session 2 - Janauary 24, 2012

Topic:

Creating educational blogs. How to articulate your blog's goals, select a platform, design a template, write posts, add guest bloggers, manage comments, and add gadgets and widgets.

Blogging in Plain English - http://youtu.be/NN2I1pWXjXI

Reasons for creating an educational blog:

To share student work with parents and an authentic audience.
To extend your students' learning environment outside the walls of the school building.
To communicate thoughts, ideas, and resources with the professional educational community.

Examples of Educational Blogs

Classroom Blogs
- "Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog" - http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/
- "Mr. Salsich's Class" - http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/
- "Mr. Buxton's 5th Grade Class" - http://mrbuxton.blogspot.com/
- "Mrs. Wanack's Classroom Blog" - http://ppsblogs.net/annalisawanack/
- "D. Brosius' Virtual Classrom" - http://dbrosius.edublogs.org/
Student Blogs
- Jaden's Awesome Blog -http://jadensawesomeblog.blogspot.com/
- Miriam's Magical Moments - http://victoria-miriamsmoments.blogspot.com/
- Jake's Online Journal - http://mjgds.org/students/jakeg/
Educator Blog
- Free Technology for Teachers - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Blog Challenge
- "Challenge Yourself to Blog: Student Blogging Challenge" (Sponsored by Edublogs) - http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/
Edublog Awards 2011 - http://edublogawards.com/

Platforms

Blogger (Owned by Google) - http://www.blogger.com/
Edublogs -http://edublogs.org/
Wordpress -http://wordpress.com/

Resources

Educational Blogging Wikispace - http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/
Mrs. Yollis' "Blogging" Webpage - http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/yollis/blogging.cfm
Mr. Salsich's Blogging Guidelines -http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/blog-guidelines/
Mr. Salsich's How to Comment - http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/how-to-comment/